I'm with you as far as nasty pointless reviews go. A while ago I had someone write me tons of mails just to tell me that he didn't like my story and that he thought a German shouldn't be allowed to mess with English literature.
I take the time to read the reviews to stories I like and I'm glad that most people at Ashwinder and the Petulant Poetess seem to be encouraging and not hurtful and nasty.
It's mostly on FF.net where I find very rude comments. If the story states that it is based on a song or some challenge and people complain about it I always think they are bitchy on purpose.
And yes fanfiction taught me a lot about punctuation. I still make mistakes but that's what you have betas for.
As for mistakes in published fiction. One of my favorite books includes some of the funniest typos in the world. I know they are typos because they were corrected in the paperback.
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Date: 2006-07-16 08:52 pm (UTC)I take the time to read the reviews to stories I like and I'm glad that most people at Ashwinder and the Petulant Poetess seem to be encouraging and not hurtful and nasty.
It's mostly on FF.net where I find very rude comments. If the story states that it is based on a song or some challenge and people complain about it I always think they are bitchy on purpose.
And yes fanfiction taught me a lot about punctuation. I still make mistakes but that's what you have betas for.
As for mistakes in published fiction. One of my favorite books includes some of the funniest typos in the world. I know they are typos because they were corrected in the paperback.